The largest pet rabbit-dedicated charity in the UK, the RWAF, welcomes EU ban on animal testing of cosmetics but stresses that thousands of pet rabbits are still suffering in domestic environments through lack of knowledge and lack of legislation.

The government is promoting fitness for all in this Olympic year; so many rabbits suffer health problems because of bad diet and lack of space to exercise that the RWAF is also calling for fitness for rabbits.

Rabbit owners are facing a daily dilemma: when they leave their rabbits for a while, should they put them in a run and risk exposing them to a downpour, or leave them in the hutch – leaving them cramped and with no space for exercising?

Many domestic rabbits are kept in conditions as bad as - or worse than - those proposed in recent planning applications for battery rabbit meat farms: applications which have caused great public distaste.

Following the outcry over the controversial John Lewis UK television ads showing a neglected dog, the Rabbit Welfare Association draws attention to hundreds of thousands of pet rabbits suffering the same fate.

The Rabbit Welfare Association (RWAF) takes a twist on the Royal Wedding, asking rabbit owners to use the marriage vows as a reminder of the life long promises we should make when we take pet rabbits into our lives.

The Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund (RWAF) concerned that the combined effects of Autumn, cost and retrospective tax bills could create a sharp rise in pet rabbits being released into the wild and near-certain death.

Britain's Rabbit Welfare Association & Fund (RWAF) warns that many rabbit hutches sold by some leading retail chains are so small that keeping rabbits in them is cruel - and could even cause pet owners to break the law.

An animal sanctuary in Norfolk, UK recently rescued 74 rabbits, including babies, living in filthy, squalid conditions. The 74 were those that survived; many others were not so lucky. In the wake of this, The Rabbit Welfare Association calls for breeders to be licensed.